In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved...well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were. That's what you've taught me, fur face,and because of you I'll never be the same.

And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.